All 5 Uses of
latent
in
Sophie's World
- Freud called this the latent dream thoughts, and these hidden thoughts which the dream is really about may stem from the distant past, from earliest childhood, for instance.†
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- The actual process of converting the latent dream thoughts to the manifest dream aspect was termed by Freud the dream work.†
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- But what are the latent dream thoughts that the dream is really about?†
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- They have, though; the words and the ideas have lain 'latent' in their consciousness, but now, when all caution and all censorship have let go, they are surfacing.
Chpt 30 *latent = potentially existing but not presently evident or active
- He does not know the latent dream thoughts, Sophie.†
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Definition:
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(latent) potentially existing but not presently evident or active